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Closing in on Closure. Occupational Closure and Temporary Employment in Germany

Stuth, Stefan - 2017

There is now ample evidence of a rise in ‘non-standard work arrangements’ in many industrialised economies, yet only rarely does theoretical and empirical work probe the question of why the risk of temporary employment varies. Focusing on temporary employment, the author extends the scope of...

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From temporary help jobs to permanent employment: what can we learn from matching estimators and their sensitivity?

Ichino, Andrea; Mealli, Fabrizia; Nannicini, Tommaso - 2006

The diffusion of Temporary Work Agency (TWA) jobs originated a harsh policy debate and ambiguous empirical evidence. Results for the US, based on quasi-experimental evidence, suggest that a TWA assignment decreases the probability of finding a stable job, while results for Europe, based on the...

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Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?

Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Frank, Jeff - 2003

In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a ?buffer stock? model of temporary work that suggests a number of reasons why ethnic minorities and women may be more likely to be on...

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Union threat and non-union employment: A natural experiment on the use of temporary employment in British firms

Salvatori, Andrea - 2011

This paper presents the first empirical evidence on the effect of the threat of unionisation on the use of a predominantly non-union type of employment, i.e. temporary employment. The identification strategy exploits an exogenous variation in union threat induced in the UK by new legislation...

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Temporary agency work and the user firm's productivity: First evidence from German Panel Data

Hirsch, Boris; Mueller, Steffen - 2010

Entleihers erhöht, während exzessive Nutzung von Leiharbeit eine Niedrigproduktivitätsstrategie mit geringem Einsatz von Human … Gegensatz zur spärlichen Literatur zu den Produktivitätseffekten von Leiharbeit nutzen wir einen großen Paneldatensatz und Fixe …

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Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment

Wadensjö, Eskil; Andersson, Pernilla - 2004

In most industrialized countries the majority of employed people are full-time employees with a non-temporary job and work at a workplace of the company in which they are employed. They are making careers at the employer they are employed by and most work-place changes are to other jobs of the...

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The relationship between earnings and first birth probability among Norwegian men and women 1994-2008

Kaldager, Rannveig V. - 2014

that the correlation between earnings and fertility has become more positive over time for women but is virtually unchanged … men. I suggest that decreasing opportunity costs of motherhood as well as strategic timing of fertility to reduce wage …

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Returns to Education and Individual Heterogeneity

Pohlmeier, Winfried; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Maier, Michael - 2004

In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to education. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...

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Social capital and fertility intentions: The case of Italy, Bulgaria, and West Germany

Di Giulio, Paola; Bühler, Christoph; Ette, Andreas; … - 2012

Despite the many differences that exist between Italy, Bulgaria, and Germany, the three countries are among those with … the lowest fertility rates in Europe. However, they differ in the level of public support for families and the role of … informal supportive networks in daily life. Italy and Bulgaria, on the one hand, share very low levels of public support. In …

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Monthly estimates of the quantum of fertility: Towards a fertility monitoring system in Austria

Sobotka, Tomá; Winkler-Dworak, Maria; Testa, Maria Rita - 2005

Short-term variations in fertility and seasonal patterns of childbearing have been of interest to demographers for a … long time. Presenting our detailed study of period fertility in Austria since 1984, we discuss the problems and advantages … of constructing and analysing various period fertility indicators that reflect real exposure and potentially minimise the …

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